Re: NANFA-- more sunfish spawning [long]

Gordon (gordonj_at_fundy.net)
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:07:11 -0500

Want me to get you a few pumpkinseeds?

they are very agressive.

wiped out 300 + tadpoles in 2 days or so when introduced to my pond.

wiped out my friends entire aquarium of shiners and chubb.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Stallsmith" <fundulus_at_hotmail.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- more sunfish spawning [long]

> >I use hornwort as a surface floater (also cuts down on algae by blocking
> >the
> >light.) This gives my guppy fry a place to hide so they don't get eaten
> >immediately. Last summer my pumpkin seed sunfish has flake food as a
> >staple, and grasshoppers, flies, crickets and anything elsy my kids would
> >throw in. Fingers and toes would be nibbled if they went in. The
sunfish
> >were very agressive. They ate all my smaller shiners, most chubb and
lots
> >of my green eel young.
> Pumpkinseeds are amazingly aggressive and opportunistic for food, much
more
> so than bluegills or longears because they have larger mouths and more
> powerful pharyngeal jaws. If you're in New Brunswick, would the
pumpkinseeds
> spawn before late May at the earliest? I know that in eastern
Massachusetts
> pumpkinseeds don't start spawning until early May and more typically well
> into June. They're still one of my fave fish, both because they look good
> and also they have interesting life features and behaviors.
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
> (no pumpkinseeds here, too far south!)
>
>
>
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